Ejaz Haider in the Daily Times, Lahore
Friday, March 06, 2009
The other possibility is that you consider the bombing an outrage; you also consider that the idea of pushing women to the periphery is not one that you could accept or condone. That the Legend of the Fall is not part of the Islamic discourse; in fact, as Allama Iqbal argued in The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam, eating the Forbidden Fruit was a transition from a state of simple consciousness to one of self-consciousness with all the complexities that such a transition entailed.
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